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• Founder and Creative Director of Ping Pong Productions
• Member of Forbes NonProfit Council
• A leading expert on contemporary performing arts and the developing arts market in China
• A former arts management fellow at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington D.C.
• Artistic Director at the West Kowloon Cultural District Authority in Hong Kong

• CEO, Shwe Strategies LLC
• Senior Advisor, Albright Stonebridge Group
• Senior Advisor, United States Institute of Peace
• Former U.S. Ambassador to Burma (Myanmar), 2012-2016; Special Envoy to Burma, 2011-2012
• Former Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary (six months acting Assistant Secretary) overseeing Asia in the Office of the Secretary of Defense, 2009-2011
• Specialist in diplomacy and security policy with nearly 30 years of experience in Asian affairs and U.S.-Asia relations
• President of the National Democratic Institute (NDI)

Ben Harburg is a Managing Partner at MSA Capital, a global investment firm with over $2 billion in assets under management. Mr. Harburg also leads MSA Novo, the emerging markets focused franchise of MSA. Ben has significant investment and operations … Continued

• Author of I am My Mother’s Daughter: Wisdom on Life, Loss, and Love
• Author of Crush Cancer and the Crush Cancer Workbook
• Creator of crazyperfectlife.com with over 200,000 followers

• Served nearly 6 years in the White House National Security Council (2009-2015) as President Obama’s top advisor on Asia
• Longest serving Asia advisor to President Obama and a key architect of Obama’s China policy   
• Served in Treasury Department as Policy Advisor to U.S.-China Strategic Economic Dialogue led by Secretary Henry M. Paulson, Jr.
• Served as Senior Asia Analyst at the RAND Corporation for 7 years
• Georgetown University Penner Family Chair in Asian Studies

• Founder and Chairman, BDA China, a leading investment consulting firm.
• Author of “Alibaba: The House That Jack Ma Built”
• Founder, investor and leading advisor on China’s dynamic technology and consumer sectors.
• Recipient of the 2016 Book of the Year award by The Economist for ‘Alibaba‘

• Founder & CEO of Peridona Weddings
• An expert in event planning A-Z, lifestyle, etiquette, household management and training, gift giving-selection and wrapping, and how to be a great hostess and a great guest
• Former Social Secretary for Vice President of the United States, The White House

• Founder of Bearapy
• Leadership Consultant at INSEAD Global Leadership Center (executive education).
• Speaker for Gen Y / Millenial women personal and professional development.
• Widely published author on topics of mental & emotional well-being, self awareness,
  creativity, and women issues.
• Avid writer on NochNoch.com.

● Chief Macro Investment Strategist, Private Capital Limited
● Global economist based in Hong Kong or 25+ years
● Chief Regional Economist: Smith New Court Far East Ltd., SG Warburg Far East Ltd., ABN-AMRO Ltd.
● Iconoclastic predictor of national and global trends

• Journalist focused on Chinese youth and education
• Author of China’s Millennials: The Want Generation
• Writing forthcoming book on Chinese students in the United States